Teknolust (2002)

Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, ... See full summary »

Director:

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Writer:

Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Stars:

Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tilda Swinton	...	Rosetta / Ruby / Marinne / Olive
Jeremy Davies	...	Sandy
James Urbaniak	...	Agent Hopper
John O'Keefe	...	Professor Crick
Karen Black	...	Dirty Dick
Al Nazemian	...	Dr. Bea
S.U. Violet	...	Dr. Aye
Josh Kornbluth	...	Tim
Thomas Jay Ryan	...	Preacher
Howard Swain	...	Alex
Diana Demar	...	Dana
John Pirruccello	...	Hair Dresser
Abigail Van Alyn	...	Sandy's Mom
Dick Bright	...	Phil
John Bradford King	...	Nathan (as Brad King)

Storyline

Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine. The SRA's act as 'portals' on the Internet, helping users to fulfill their dreams. The SRA's are nourished through touch. Because they were bred only with Rosetta's DNA, they need the balance of an Y chromo or male sperm to survive. Rosetta projects seduction scenes from movie clips onto Ruby, which absorbs as she sleeps. The SRA'S can not distinguish dreams from reality. Ruby acts out these scenes in real life with the men and shares her spoils with her sisters. However, Ruby's encounters suffer from impotence and unexplained rashes. Fearing a bio-gender war, the FBI sends in Agent Edward Hopper to solve the mystery. Puzzled, he turns for help from a private cyber detective. The men recover. Ruby falls in love and becomes impregnated by Sandy, ...

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Plot Keywords:

cyborg | rosetta stone | impotence | geek | female scientist | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site [us]

Country:

USA Germany UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 October 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Desejos Virtuais

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$9,475 (USA) (22 August 2003)

Gross:

$28,811 (USA) (3 October 2003)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blue Turtle, Epiphany Productions, Hotwire Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

While the credits run, Rosetta acts as a substitute for Ruby in the latter's internet portal and shares some thoughts and findings.

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Connections

References Algiers (1938)

User Reviews

computer/genetics-age psychadelia

First of all, you can't look at this movie in terms of realism, it's just a big psychadelic dream. Yes, we all know computer viruses and human viruses can't be transmitted to one another; but it's also not the point of this movie. This movie has to be looked upon as pure fantasy, not as a study of possible future reality. Hell, the solid red, green, and yellow color schemes should clue you in that this is more like 60's psychadelic dreams. Other clues that this is fantasy is that Rosetta talks to her clones, Ruby, Olive, and Marine through a microwave oven!

One great line in the movie that really got me rolling on the floor was when Olive tells Marine that a virus that she just eradicated was from an attachment, and Marine responds that "Rosetta was right attachments are dangerous". Of course, this was double entendre, one meaning of the word "attachment" meant email attachments, while the other one meant relationships. If you didn't understand this movie the first time, then you owe it to yourself to watch it again to catch all of these little pokes at modern life.